Re: diablo license

2001-03-28 Thread John Galt
disclaimer of warranty - -- You have paid nothing for the preceding, therefore it's worth every penny you've paid for it: if you did pay for it, might I remind you of the immortal words of Phineas Taylor Barnum regarding fools and money? Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who

Re: unofficial mozilla 0.8 deb

2001-03-09 Thread John Galt
3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0 -- The Internet must be a medium for it is neither Rare nor Well done! a href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]John Galt /a

Re: ladspa.h -- a plugin API.

2001-03-08 Thread John Galt
Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 -- Here is wisdom. Let him that hath wisdom count the number of the BSD: for it is the number of a man; and his number is VI VI VI. (ir-reve-rent-lations 13:17-19) Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: ladspa.h -- a plugin API.

2001-03-06 Thread John Galt
9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 -- FINE, I take it back: UNfuck you! Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: [Steve Lidie Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU] Re: xodometer licensing

2001-02-27 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:41:28PM -0700, John Galt wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: 2. Default copyright was established both in the Copyright Act of 1976 and the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988. The relevant

Re: [Steve Lidie Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU] Re: xodometer licensing

2001-02-27 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:52:29AM -0700, John Galt wrote: [reply to the real post later] On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: Let's go to another case: You do the same for OpenSSL. You've violated the OpenSSL license, since it expressly forbids linking

Re: [Steve Lidie Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU] Re: xodometer licensing

2001-02-27 Thread John Galt
update On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, I wrote: On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:52:29AM -0700, John Galt wrote: [reply to the real post later] On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: Let's go to another case: You do the same for OpenSSL. You've violated the OpenSSL

Re: [Steve Lidie Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU] Re: xodometer licensing

2001-02-26 Thread John Galt
Headers trimmed. The bug can be settled on it's own merits... On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 03:05:48PM -0700, John Galt wrote: On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:41:36PM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote: I recieved this response from

Re: [Steve Lidie Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU] Re: xodometer licensing

2001-02-26 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, I don't think it's a free license for similar reasons as RMS. Mostly because it's very vauge in places, and references things that it really shouldn't in others. Examples: I doubt it. RMS's REAL reason

Re: [Steve Lidie Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU] Re: xodometer licensing

2001-02-26 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Brian Ristuccia wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:21:40AM -0700, John Galt wrote: I doubt it. RMS's REAL reason is that it isn't his GPL. The real reason is that it's unclear and subject to differing interpretations. If possible, we should either get a quick note from

Re: [Steve Lidie Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU] Re: xodometer licensing

2001-02-26 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote: John Galt said: On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: This statement of freely available, however, also conflicts with the examples given for freely availableness, such as usenet. Nothing about a usenet posting implies free redistibutability. In fact

Re: [Steve Lidie Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU] Re: xodometer licensing

2001-02-26 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:21:40AM -0700, John Galt wrote: 1) quote place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications

Re: [Steve Lidie Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU] Re: xodometer licensing

2001-02-26 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:00:07PM -0700, John Galt wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote: John Galt said: On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: This statement of freely available, however, also conflicts with the examples given for freely

Re: [Steve Lidie Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU] Re: xodometer licensing

2001-02-26 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:42:53PM -0700, John Galt wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: Second, Perl was released in the mid-80s. The current copyright law is ten years older than that. I don't know exactly when the AL was written, but this would

Re: [Steve Lidie Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU] Re: xodometer licensing

2001-02-26 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:40:02PM -0700, John Galt wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:21:40AM -0700, John Galt wrote: 1) quote place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them Freely Available

Re: [Steve Lidie Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU] Re: xodometer licensing

2001-02-26 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:45:16PM -0700, John Galt wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:42:53PM -0700, John Galt wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote: Second, Perl was released in the mid-80s. The current copyright

Re: [Steve Lidie Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU] Re: xodometer licensing

2001-02-26 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote: John Galt said: The copyright by definition is codified in Berne and the DMCA. Think 1990 rather than 1970... http://www.landfield.com/faqs/law/copyright/faq/part2/ Specifically section 2.7. 1988 in the US, earlier (1971, according to part4

Re: [Steve Lidie Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU] Re: xodometer licensing

2001-02-25 Thread John Galt
into the debian/copyright file? -- You'll learn something about men and women -- the way they're supposed to be. Caring for each other, being happy with each other, being good to each other. That's what we call love. You'll like that a lot. -- Kirk, The Apple, stardate 3715.6 John Galt

Re: QNX Open Community License

2001-02-24 Thread John Galt
enough to make my own decisions. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QNX Open Community License

2001-02-24 Thread John Galt
incompatibility, so let's not stir up a hornets nest by being the test case... Put it in the same category as the OpenSSL license and the 4-clause BSD--DFSG free, but watch the links. -- An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. -- Dylan Thomas John Galt ([EMAIL

Re: ATT public license (for ksh): DFSG-compatible?

2001-02-07 Thread John Galt
never having to say you're sorry. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: is the license of gsview okay?

2001-02-01 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: I am interested in gsview which is famous in Windows users and a kind of ghostview or gv. But I am not sure if its license permits us to upload to Debian or not. (You can get the original source from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get36.htm) It

Re: web2ldap -- cgi and standalone web server that allows browsing and editing LDAP

2000-12-21 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, John Galt wrote: DFSG != GPL. The only issue that GPL incompatibility has is that it can't be closely linked to GPL software, and the description implies that it doesn't (standalone). Wups! Didn't read far enough in Tommi's message. He wants to link it to GPL

Re: License issues with fortune packages?

2000-12-18 Thread John Galt
Probably all would be good with proper attribution, but I'd keep them in non-free if I were you (proper attribution does NOT release you from copyright restrictions, it just enhances the fair use claim). On 18 Dec 2000, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: I am considering packaging a couple of fortune

Re: License issues with fortune packages?

2000-12-18 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Joseph Carter wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 03:05:16PM -0700, John Galt wrote: Probably all would be good with proper attribution, but I'd keep them in non-free if I were you (proper attribution does NOT release you from copyright restrictions, it just enhances

Re: orphaning fetchmail

2000-12-17 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Raul Miller wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:25:19AM -0700, John Galt wrote: Rewriting the damned GPL to be compatible with the rest of the world might be a good place to start rewriting. If the damned GPL didn't have that incompatibility there would be no Debian

Re: orphaning fetchmail

2000-12-15 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Raul Miller wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:04:15PM +0100, Christian Surchi wrote: fetchmail is licensed under GPL license. What about conflict between GPL and BSD clauses from openssl? I mean the problem with mutt and ssl. What about lynx-ssl, links-ssl,

Re: orphaning fetchmail

2000-12-15 Thread John Galt
wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:31:09AM -0700, John Galt wrote: I hear the wheel was also not released under the GPL I hear that the wheel is not considered intellectual property. -- Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: orphaning fetchmail

2000-12-15 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:36:34AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:31:09AM -0700, John Galt wrote: I hear the wheel was also not released under the GPL I hear that the wheel is not considered intellectual property

Re: ngrep 1.38 license

2000-11-28 Thread John Galt
not subscribed to this list. Thanks for your time, -- EMACS == Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: OPL

2000-11-17 Thread John Galt
-- Sacred cows make the best burgers Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!!!

Re: cssc license

2000-11-17 Thread John Galt
confirm ? Best regards, -- Sacred cows make the best burgers Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!!!

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread John Galt
for it. maybe lawyer should comment on this. That's okay. I'm sure the Polish government will fall into line when I and my Panzers come crashing across the border to a booming sountrack of Wagner. -- void hamlet() {#define question=((bb)||(!bb))} Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New license for UW-IMAP

2000-10-30 Thread John Galt
it should be. Last time I researched the MPL/NPL issue, I thought the NPL was non-free, and the MPL (barely) free. Maybe I misremember. -- Armageddon means never having to say you're sorry. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: New license for UW-IMAP

2000-10-30 Thread John Galt
the inconsistencies--most probably by failing to find enough original Netscape code to be able to assert rights under the NPL... On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Raul Miller wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:41:54PM -0700, John Galt wrote: So is mozilla in main or non-free? You should be able to figure that out

Re: license interpretation

2000-10-04 Thread John Galt
: My computer isn't working now. Tech: Yes, you said that. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread John Galt
. -- You have paid nothing for the preceding, therefore it's worth every penny you've paid for it: if you did pay for it, might I remind you of the immortal words of Phineas Taylor Barnum regarding fools and money? Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

2000-09-13 Thread John Galt
, John Galt wrote: This has always been a stone in my craw: why should a keep it legal clause make it non DFSG free? Keep it legal is not the clause being discussed. Instead, it's 1.Any action which is illegal under international or local law is forbidden by this license. Any such action

Re: UCITA bans GPL

2000-02-22 Thread John Galt
fools and money? Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: webmin license

1999-12-17 Thread John Galt
uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D | I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisions. Who is John Galt

Bruce Perens's Slashdot debacle

1999-12-02 Thread John Galt
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Who is John Galt?/a Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld

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